Hubby is back to work! Yay!  So that means a return to the morning notes.  It was pointed out to me by my Daughter Sari that I waste a lot of paper on the morning notes and she came up with a perfect easy idea.

I was not at all in save the planet mode.  I was in “I can barely keep my eyes open and I want to get this crap done so I can get to bed” mode.  We use dry erase boards a lot but it just doesn’t work in the kitchen, I guess because the space is so small. I was sure that was where she was headed but she pointed out that the notes usually say the same things… “lunch is in the fridge”, “call me at lunch”, “I have to show houses when you get out of work”, etc.  So we made nicely printed signs on some heavier paper we had and stuck them in a pinchy magnet on the fridge.  So all we have to do now is pull the appropriate note down and put it by his keys.  We also made one that says, “have a good day” for when there is nothing else to say. No more pulling pages out of notebooks and hunting for a pen that works!  We made our live easier and saved some trees.  Easy right?

So I looked up a few more things that families can easily do.

• Did  you know that changing just one regular light bulb in the house to one of those newish compact fluroescent bulbs has the same impact as removing one MILLION cars from the road?! 
• Using cruise control saves on gas.
• Having a meatless meal just once a week will have an enormous impact on water  & land conservation, and greenhouse emissions.  In fact, a person makes a bigger positive impact on the environment by eating vegetarian than by buying a hybrid car.
• Turn your computer off at night.
• Stop ordering phone books and use the internet intead.
• Switch from answering machines to voice mail systems.
• Use rechargeable batteries when you can.  Saves money and saves energy.
• Buy local.
• Eliminate junk mail. click here to go to a website where you can “de-list” your name, similar to the “do not call list”, except your name is coming off the main sources of junk mail mailing.  It’s convenient for us and helpful to the evironment.

Something else I read criticized women and families for having so many children when the planet is already overpopulated and that 1.7 chldren is the responsible amount of kids to have that the planet can sustain.  WOW!  That’s a hot topic!  How do you guys feel about that?